Genus Woronichinia

Name: Woronichinia Elenkin 1933

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Wo.ro.ni.chi’ni.a. N.L. fem. n. Woronichinia, named to honor N.N. Woronchin, Russian algologist

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Woronichini-), wo-ro-ni-K^HI-ni-a

Type species: Woronichinia naegeliana (Unger 1854) Elenkin 1933

Valid publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Series 2, Sporovye Rasteniya 1933; 1:17-21.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Woronichiniaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser. 2, Sporovye Rasteniya 1933; 1:17-21.
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1933) assigned this genus to the family Woronichiniaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser. 2, Sporovye Rasteniya 1933; 1:17-21.
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Gomphosphaeriaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kastovsky J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) - state in 2004. Algological Studies 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Coelosphaeriaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335. 🇨🇿
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Coelosphaerium Nägeli 1849. Publication: Unger F. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der niedersten Algenformen nebst Versuchen ihre Entstehung betreffend. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 1854; 7:185-196.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Gomphosphaeria Kützing 1836. Publication: Lemmermann E. Algen I (Schizophyceen, Flagellaten, Peridineen). In: Anonymous NN (eds), Kryptogamenflora der Mark Brandenburg und angrenzender Gebiete herausgegeben von dem Botanischen Verein der Provinz Brandenburg. Dritter Band, Verlag von Gebrüder Borntraeger, Leipzig, 1907, p. 1-304.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Wormzizhinia"; "Woronochinia"; "Wororzichirzia"; "Wortmichinia".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 14
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 14
Total number of child taxa: 18

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Woronichinia botrys (Skuja 1964) Komárek and Hindák 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia compacta (Lemmermann 1899) Komárek and Hindák 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia delicatula (Skuja 1964) Komárek and Hindák 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia elorantae Komárek and Komárková-Legnerová 1992	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia fremyi (Komárek 1984) Komárek and Hindák 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia fusca (Skuja 1948) Komárek and Hindák 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia hungarica Hortobágyi 1939	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia karelica Komárek and Komárková-Legnerová 1992	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia klingae Komárek and Komárková-Legnerová 1992	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Woronichinia klingiae corrig. Komárek and Komárková-Legnerová 1992	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia kuselae Watanabe and Komárek 1994	inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])	misspelling
    Woronichinia kuseliae corrig. Watanabe and Komárek 1994	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia naegeliana (Unger 1854) Elenkin 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Woronichinia obtusa" Joosten 2006	not validly published	preferred name
    "Woronichinia radians" (Hortobágyi 1957) Komárek and Hindák 1988	not validly published	preferred name
    Woronichinia robusta (Skuja 1964) Komárek and Hindák 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia ruzickae Komárek and Hindák 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Woronichinia tenera (Skuja 1964) Komárek and Hindák 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933

Assigned by: Pokorny J, Kastovsky J, Stenclova LM. Epitypification of Merismopedia tranquilla (Cyanobacteria) prompts phylogenetic reassessment of the genus and the description of two morphologically similar genera. J Phycol 2026; 0:0. 🇨🇿

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Record number: 6208